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Philippe_ramette. Liweiart-works_photo. The Lifelike Oil Paintings of Sharon Sprung. Words from artist Sharon Sprung: "My paintings are a carefully observed negotiation, manipulated layer upon layer in order to create a work of art as equivalent as possible to the complexity of real life.They are an attempt to control the almost uncontrollable substance that is oil paint, and the equally untamable expression of the human condition.

Pushing around puddles of this almost living substance, I am endlessly defining and redefining the craft of oil painting to fabricate an animated, breathing image grounded in the recognizable and familiar.
Marc Simon Frei and His Tesla Sparks. LightSpin Documentary Film. Incredible Dust Sculpture Art by Ujin Lee and Tom Edwards. These incredible dust sculpture art pieces are part of a collaborative project by Ujin Lee and Tom Edwards.

Through the use of 1/24th-scale model recreations, Smith photographs scenes of everyday life in his created town taking place from the 1920’s to the mid 1960’s. What is impressive about his images is that Smith relies solely on his profound ability to place his models within the real world and uses only his eye to determine the position of his camera to capture a truly realistic scene. No Photoshop has been used, requiring an impressive attention to detail in every shot.
Sans titre. In his series “MIA: Soliloquy Of A Dream”, photographer Wayne Lawrence documents the excitement and extravagance of Miami’s Urban Beach Week.

Lawrence also explores the culture of aspiring to excessive materialism and vanity created by the impact of wealthy drug cartels that once ran the streets of Miami. Finding a reflection of this lifestyle in hip-hop, Lawrence photographs the crowds of people who flock to the event sharing the same obsession with materiality. He describes the thrilling scene on his website, “Over the four-day weekend, South Beach is transformed into a frenzied atmosphere where the drama of hip-hop is played out on the city’s streets as hundreds of police stand on high alert.

She reinterprets them in her photos by focusing on the pagans roots and ethnography of Russ Land. Her works are thoroughly detailed and immersive, and are based on comprehensive research on and comparison with Euro-Asian mythology. The artist pays special attention to her ambivalent interpretation of the symbolism hidden in legends and myths. The aim of the project is to use photography for telling stories that have been unsaid, rewritten or distorted over many centuries. Each tale contains a lot of hidden messages.
Russian Photographer Captures Fairy-Tale Scenes With REAL Animals. When Moscow-based photographer Darya Kondratyeva isn’t snapping family, maternity or baby photos, she creates enchanting photos that seem like re-interpretations of old fairytales or legends.

The models in her photos seem like they could be witches, princesses or forest spirits. Aside from her models, trained animals feature heavily in Kondratyeva’s fantasy photography as well.
Kyle Thompson - Plague (2014)
Photographs by Mikael Aldo. Born 1996 in Jakarta, Indonesia Mikael Aldo transports us through young imaginative eyes, enabling the mind to expand beyond recognizable landscapes and see the world through his viewfinder.

Creating a transient portal, his visions are pristine conceptualizations achieved through photo manipulation. Aldo juxtaposes many natural habitats with the human body where he morphs the two, making a unifying composition into a limitless fantasy.
The work of Noell S. Oszvald. With a shadowy and highly conceptual aesthetic, like the images of dreams upon awakening, Hungarian photographer Noell S.

Oszvald presents powerful, surreal self-portraits rich in sentiment and composition. At 22-years-old her portfolio, although small, holds the sophistication of a photographer who has been established for years.
Sarah Pickering. Ilse Leenders Photography. « Hopper Meditation » par Richard Tushman. Ksenia Alekseeva photography. April 2009, Clayton Cubitt Interview. Clayton Cubitt, 'Untitled', Blue, 2003-2009 “Erotica is using a feather,” wrote Isabel Allende, “pornography is using the whole chicken.”

Clayton Cubitt takes Allende at her word.
Roger ballen. Projects - Clayton Cubitt. "Improbabilita" by Giuseppe Colarusso. In his series "Improbabilita," Italian artist Giuseppe Colarusso makes everyday objects completely unusable. Each image becomes a bit of a puzzle to solve. In an interview, the artist mentions that the pieces that are not created in Photoshop, he fabricates himself. Some improbable, but not impossible creations, exposed very simply as still lifes, with a couple of images involving ice cream cones. Colarusso diverts the functional operations of objects that surround us.